Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-30
FOorRALLArY YALE.

Football the Chief Topic on the Cam pus-The CulmInat1ng Grand Rattle
 The Make-Up and Calibre of the New
 Team-What Captain Beecher Says
 The Rival Teams-NO Slugging.
 Yale's enthusiasm in athletics is prover-
 bial, and this year she is evidently not going
 to belle her reputation, judging from the
 enthusiasm with which football is being taken up. Football is now the chief topic of conversation on the campus and the inter est will continue unabated until the great battle between those giants of the football field, Yale and Princeton, on Thanksgiving day. Yale is exceedingly anxious to win in the coming intercollegiate contest, as she needs but the football championship to fill \ her cup of happiness to the full-for she will then hold the triple championship. In | the Yale-Princeton game last year Yale had the stronger team. but the game was not fin \ ished and no championship was awarded; so that as Princeton won in 1885 she still holds the football championship. This being the present state of affairs no efforts will be spared to put in the field as strong team as possible; and under the direction of Captain Beecher, who is as enthusiastic g leader as he is skillful in play, great things may be confidently expected of the Yale team. Captain Beecher is very popular with his men and he seems to have the faculty of arousing in them the same enthusiasm with which he is himself animated, and Yales en- thusiasm is what has won her battles in the past.
 The team made it's first appearance at the Field on Saturday, accompanied by a large number of aspirants for the vacant positions on the team, and daily practice is now being indulged in and great improvement in the fan du ha RJ1t seven of last years team will play this fall so that nearly half of the eleven will be new and inexperienced players, whom it will take some time to get into shape for effective practice. The veterans, with their playing positions which they occupied last year, are; Corbin '89, center rush; Gill '8S, Carter 'Se s., Wallace 'S9, rushers; Beecher 'SS, quar- ter-baek; Morrison go, half-baek; Bull '6S. l full-back Wurtemburg '89 S., Pratt '9S S., substitutes. Buchanan, one ot last years rushers, is still in college, but he Is not well | enough to play. Bull has not yet commenced I to train, but will probably do so in few ] days.
 The most difficult vacancy to fill will be l that occasioned by the death of Watkinson. Watkinson was called, and with justice, the l king of half backs, and his equal will not soon be found. Graves 'S8 s. has been practicing in that position and has done so well that in all probability he will be se-
 
 The freshman class has been disappoint-
 ment thus far, as but few freshmen have made their appearance on the Field; and of these few none have yet distinguished themselves. However, it is yet rather early to pronounce | judgment upon the "kicking" ability of the class of '91.
 Yale. Princeton and Harvard will compose the league, as last year. Under tine new l rules it is hoped and expected that all ob- 1 jectionable features will be done away with, and the game in consequence will be the
 more interesting to right-minded people. Captain Harry Beecher, in conversation with COURIER reporter last evening in re. gard to the eleven and the prospects fo1 the blue, said: ''Yale can win the championship this fall only by the hardest kind of training. Princeton's team will be substantially the same as last year with but one or two changes. 1 think Harvard will l make a strong fight for the championship this year. Yales team will be so largely made up of new men that it will take some time to break in, and she is thus somewhat handicapped in the race. However, we will do our best to win, and 'Yale's best in the past has been very good. The course of training will be similar to that of last year. And about the new rules, don't know yet how they will work. l am working hard to get the men up in them, and it is to give the team some practice under the new rules that I had arranged for this afternoons game
 with Wesleyan so early in the year. Under
 the new rules no slugging will be allowed,
 and there will be two referees, one to watch
 the ball and the other to prevent slugging.
 Anyone caught slugging will be summarily
 sent from the field. Under these rules if a
 bail is taken back it must go back twenty
 feet instead of ten as formerly. '91 is not
 a good football class. More of the big men
 ought to come out to practice. They should
 if necessary sacrifice little for the honor of
 the university. I think now that the Yale
 Princeton game will be played on the Satur-
 day before Thanksgiving day on the Polo
 grounds in New York city The Princeton
 faculty's objection is to playing in New York
 on Thanksgiving day and does not hold good
 against any other day"